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Stranga
starptautiskā konferencē aprāj Zurofu
2002. gada nogalē
Latvijas Universitātes profesors Aivars Stranga Jeruzalemē piedalījās
starptautiskā konferencē par vēsturnieku komisiju darbu holokausta izpētē,
kur viņam notikusi asa domu apmaiņa ar Simona Vīzentāla centra
Jeruzalemes biroja direktoru Efraimu Zurofu.
Kā pastāstīja
Stranga, tā bija akadēmiska konference, kuru rīkoja Pasaules ebreju
kongress, Jeruzalemes holokausta memoriāls un pētniecības komplekss
"Jad Vašem" un organizācija, kas nodarbojas ar ebreju īpašumu
atgūšanu.
Konferencē piedalījās vēsturnieku
komisiju pārstāvji no Šveices, ASV, Beļģijas, Francijas, Vācijas,
Latvijas, Lietuvas un citām valstīm. Kolēģi atzinīgi novērtējuši pēc
Latvijas Valsts prezidenta iniciatīvas izveidotās vēsturnieku komisijas
veikumu, kura sagatavojusi jau septiņus apjomīgus dokumentu un pētījumu
krājumus par padomju un nacistu zvērībām.
Zurofa uzstāšanās, pēc Strangas vārdiem,
bijusi ļoti emocionāla un agresīva. Zurofs apgalvojis, ka Latvijā un
Lietuvā nekas netiek darīts, lai vajātu un sauktu pie atbildības
noziedzniekus, kas vainojami holokaustā pret ebrejiem, tiekot vajāti
"nevainīgi sarkanie partizāni", bet pētījumi tiekot veikti,
tikai lai "aizmālētu acis NATO". Zurofam arī neesot pieņemams,
ka Latvijas un Lietuvas vēsturnieki "liek vienlīdzības zīmi"
starp nacistu un padomju noziegumiem.
Stranga uzskata, ka Zurofa izteikumi tonalitātes
ziņā daudz neatpaliek no antisemītu agresivitātes un "cilvēkos
vairo nepatiku". "Zurofs atražo stereotipus par latviešiem un
lietuviešiem kā ebreju šāvējiem," uzskata profesors Stranga.
LETA
The
International Conference on Confronting History: The Historical
Commissions of Inquiry
29 December 2002 1 January 2003
The sessions will be held at the Yad Vashem Auditorium Har Hazikaron,
Jerusalem
MK Avraham Burg, Speaker of the Knesset
Israel Singer, Chairman
of the Governing Board of the World Jewish Congress and Co-Chairman of
W.J.R.O. Executive
MK Rabbi Michael Melchior
MK Abraham Hirchson
Avner Shalev, Chairman of Yad Vashem
Directorate
Keynote - Lawrence Eagleburger, Former United States Secretary of State
30 DECEMBER 2002
Session 2 - GERMANY, SWITZERLAND
Chair - Dan Michman, Chief Historian, Yad
Vashem
Helen B. Junz, The Bergier Commission
Jürgen Lillteicher, The
Federal Republic of Germany and the Restitution of Property Robbed in Europe
During Nazi Occupation
Avraham Barkai, Making
Comments: The Historical Commissions of Inquiry in Germany
Discussion
Session 3 - FRANCE, ITALY
Chair - Noach Flug, Chairman of the Center
of Holocaust Survivors in Israel
Claire Andrieu, The French Case: Restitution Policy (1944 -
1954) and Reparation Policy (1997 until today)
Michele Sarfatti,
Commissione Anselmi on the Italian Jewish Assets, 1998 2001
Discussion
Session 4 - HOLLAND,
NORWAY
Chair - Naphtali Lau-Lavie, Vice Chairman
of W.J.R.O. Executive
Manfred Gerstenfeld, The Unfinished Moral Battle for Dutch Post-War
Memory
Wouter J. Veraart,
Reasonableness or Strict Law? The Post-War Restitution of
Property Rights in the Netherlands and in France (1945 1952)
Bjarte Bruland, The
Restitution of Jewish Property in Norway
Discussion
Session 5 - POLAND (A)
Chair - Laurence Weinbaum, Director of Research, World Jewish
Congress
Krzysztof Persak, Coming to Terms with the Wartime Past: The
Institute of National Remembrance and Its Research on the Jedwabne Case
Joanna Michlic, The
Memory of the Dark Past: Intellectual Debate about Jedwabne
Discussion
Session 6 - POLAND (B)
Chair - Szewach Weiss, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council
Israel Gutman, The Various Opinions and Voices in the Internal
Dispute in Poland Concerning Jedwabne
Radoslaw Ignatiew,
Conclusions of the Investigation on the Murders of the Jews in Jedwabne
Discussion
Session 7 - ROMANIA, HUNGARY
Chair - Colette Avital, Member of the
Knesset
Jean Ancel, The Inquiry of the Crimes of
the Fascist Romanian Regime
Leon Volovici, After
the War and After the Revolution: Jewish Memory and Romanian
Politics
Agnes Peresztegi, Historical
Commissions and Reconciliation: What Hungarian Jews Need to Learn
Discussion
Session 8 - LITHUANIA,
LATVIA
Chair - Mordechai Altshuler, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
Markas
Zingeris, Commission for the Historical Truth and the Reshaping of
Public Mentality in the New Lithuanian Republic: Issues of Holocaust
Research and the Dissemination of Knowledge
Aivars Stranga,
Holocaust in Latvia: The Main Problems in Research
Yitzhak Arad, Basic
Questions: The Work of the Commission in the Baltic States
Discussion
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JANUARY 2003
Session 9 - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ISRAEL
Chair - Yehuda Bauer, Academic Advisor, Yad
Vashem
10:00-12:00 - Gene Sofer, The USA and Holocaust Victims Assets:
A Report on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the
United States
Ron Zweig, Historical Commissions in the USA: The Politics of
History and Archives
Yossi Katz, The Parliamentary Inquiry Committee for the Return of
Property in Israel: The Background of Its Establishment and Its
Activity, 2000-2002
Session 10 - THE ROLE OF THE PRESS
Chair - Eli Zborowski, Chairman of the American Society for Yad
Vashem
Itamar Levin, The Role of the Press in the Recovery of the
Jewish Victims Stolen Property
Richard Z. Chesnoff, How the Media Helped Face the Truth About the
Plunder of Europes Jews
Discussion
Session 11 - CONCLUDING
SESSION
Chair - Chaim Chesler, Vice Chairman of
W.J.R.O. Executive
Avi Beker, Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress Holocaust
Memory and National Myths The Moral Struggle
David Bankier, Head of
the International Institute for Holocaust Research
The Contribution of the Historical Commissions to
Holocaust Research
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